The 20 best car brands for reliability

The JD Power Vehicle Dependability Survey gives as strong a clue as any as to how reliable a car might be. The results of the 2016 survey, which asked 13,000 car owners about any problems they'd experienced with their vehicles, focused on cars registered between 2013 and 2015.

There are some surprise movers in this year's survey with luxury car manufacturers not doing so well, but more mainstream brands heading the pack.